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People Quotes - Page 377

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

"Michael Morpurgo's top writing tips" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2012.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.113, Hazelden Publishing

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

Letter from Horace Walpole to the Earl of Harcourt, 17 September 1778, in W. S. Lewis et al. (eds.) 'Horace Walpole's Correspondence' vol. 35 (1973) p. 489

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

Mario Vargas Llosa (2012). “The Bad Girl”, p.240, Faber & Faber

People love you when they on your mind/A thought is love's currency.

Song: Objects in the Mirror, Album: Watching Movies With The Sound Off, 2013

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.352